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In this novel, a character differentiates her husband from a house servant by respectively referring to them as “My Jim” and “Our Jim.” A character in this novel introduces himself to an assistant in a mismatched suit that he mistakes for a chief. Two characters in this novel briefly attend a party featuring a man who plays records out of a red box. During that gumba-gumba, a shotgun earlier used to hunt two warthogs is stolen (10[1])by Daniel to join rebel fighters. (10[1]-5[1])This novel ends (10[1])with the protagonist running towards a helicopter the day after (10[2])accusing (10[1])her former servant of pretending to be (10[1])a “big man” by keeping the keys to a yellow bakkie truck. For 10 points, the title character helps Bam and Maureen (10[1])Smales escape a violent apartheid-ending uprising in what novel by Nadine Gordimer? ■END■

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Alexander Tenace (D2)ArkansasNYU B7510
Eshan Pant (D2)NYU AOle Miss8110
Thomas Doyle (UG)Vassar BTexas A81-5
Braden Booth (D2)MissouriColorado College8410
Collin Leck (D2)Central OklahomaTexas C9410
Brynn JonesOregon StateIowa9410
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